"What is this supposed to mean?" Bart trembled as he held a stack of personal files.
"Young Master, you're being targeted," the young assistant concluded.
Rorschach ushered the young assistant out of the guest room and said to the servant at the door, "He's Mr. Bart's assistant. He's had a bit of a mental shock, so please take this young man to get some rest."
As he closed the door and returned to Mariano's bedside, he felt himself pass through a Barrier. Elizabeth must have cast another ward on the room.
Bart looked as if he wanted to take the Curved Saber and skewer the list and all the documents. "Is it the Empire Council or His Majesty the Emperor? Who is it?"
"I don't think this is coming from the top—at least not from either of them," Rorschach analyzed. "If the Emperor or the Empire Council wanted to sideline Mages from the south, they could just use official procedures to reassign you all. Besides, an assassination list targeting Mages like this... it's too amateurish."
